Automobile safety device.



R. B. LOVE.

AUTOMOBILE SAFETY DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 19, 1909.

947,1 1 2. Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

3.03am: B. LOVE, or ANTIOOH, curronum.

Au'ron'omLE sum: nnvrcn.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT B. Love, a citizen of the United States, residing at Antioch, in the county of Contra Costa and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Safety Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to safety attach ments for automobiles, and has specially in view a roller or wheel adapted for attachment to one side, or the sides, of the body of the vehicle and projecting at an angle therefrom so that it will contact with the road when the said body is careened,such for instance as .When makin a turn at high speed, so as to prevent the ve icle overturning.

It will be understood, of course, that the essential details of theinvention necessary in carrying out the above generally stated objects of the invention are susceptible of modifications and structural changes, but one preferred and practical example of the same is shown in the accompanying drawmgs, where1n-- l Figure 1 vis a side elevation of the improved safety device showing the same attached to the body of a motor vehicle. Fig. 2 is'a similar view as seen from the rear of a vehicle, also indicating by dotted lines'the position of the safety attachment. when the vehicle careens. 'Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the roller and its connection with the spindle ofthe safety device.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by. numerals, 1 designates a conventional representation of thebody of a motor vehicle and 2 designates the wheels therefor. The im roved safety attachment is composed 0 an angular bracket the base 3 of which may'have a detachable bolting enga ement 4 with "the bottom of the vehicle bo y and the vertical member 5 of which is held flush with the side of said body. A downwardly and outwardly inclined arm 6 rejects from the vertical member of said racket and projects outwardl beyond the wheels of sai body said arm in preferably rounded and having its end portion Specification of Letters Patent.

turned upwardly at ri ht angles to form a spindle 7 the outer end of which is threaded for the reception of a lock nut 8, the other or inner end of said spindle being provided with a beveled collar 9 between which and said nut 8, a wheel or roller 10 is retainedon said spindle. f

Thevwheel or roller 10 may be formed of cast or other metal or maybe a simple wooden roller, but preferably the same is of metal the exterior of which is concaved as indicated at 11 and provided with a central integral hub 12. The tread surface 13 is rounded at its rear edge and merges into the flat back 14:. A wheel or roller of this type may be readily and cheaply molded or cast, as will be obvious. I

A brace arm 15 diverges from the intermediate ortion of'the arm 6 and has its outer en secured to or integral with a bracket 16 secured to the side of the vehicle preferably slightly forward of the bracket carriedby the said arm 6. Said bracket 16 may be of the angular; type described in connection with the first mentioned bracket.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the im roved safety device may be readily attaced to the sides of a motor vehicle and retained in position to prevent the same overturning, and is therefore of especial value in connection with racing or other speed machines, and as the same is of light,

' but strong'construction, it does not matevehicle body, an outwardly and downwardly inclined arm carried by one bracket and having its outer end bent to form anangula'r spindle, a brace rod carried b the other bracket and connecting with sai I arm, and a roller mounted u on said ang'ularbracket. In testimony w iereof I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I ROBERT B. LOVE. Witnesses: F. P. Sonnonomz,

H. C. Scnnononm Patented Jan. 18, 1910..

Application filed larch 19, 1909. 1 Serial No. 484,531. 

